Monthly Manufacturing Statistics Malaysia, November 2018

Manufacturing sector registered a sales value of RM71.8 billion in November 2018

Malaysia’s November 2018 Manufacturing sales recorded a growth of 7.7 per cent, rising to RM71.8 billion as compared to RM66.6 billion reported a year ago.

Year-on-year, the growth registered in sales value in November 2018 was due to the increase in Transport Equipment & Other Manufactures Products (11.6%), Petroleum, Chemical, Rubber and Plastic Products (10.9%) and Electrical and Electronics Products (7.2%).

Total employees engaged in the Manufacturing sector in November 2018 was 1,075,925 persons, an increase of 2.0 per cent or 21,220 persons as compared to 1,054,705 persons in November 2017.

Salaries & wages paid rose 9.0 per cent or RM316.6 million to record RM3,846.6 million, thus registering an average salaries & wages per employee of RM3,575 in November 2018.

Sales value per employee gained 5.6 per cent to record RM66,709 as compared with the same month of the previous year.

*Notes:

Data forNovember 2018 is provisional. The data will be updated based on the latest available figures and subsequently published in the December 2018 publication.